August 24, 2012

August 24, 2012

The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany
By Tomaz Jardim
(Harvard University Press, 276 pp., $29.95)
Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’s Ukraine, 1952–1953
By Hiroaki Kuromiya
(University of Toronto Press, 212 pp., $60)
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
By David Scheffer
(Princeton University Press, 533 pp., $35)
Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
By William Shawcross
(PublicAffairs, 257 pp., $26.99)
IN 1952, FOURTEEN peasants, owning little more than a few religio

August 24, 2012

The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
By Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady
(Princeton University Press, 693 pp., $35)
Oligarchy
By Jeffrey A. Winters
(Cambridge University Press, 323 pp., $29.99)
The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy By David Karpf
(Oxford University Press, 237 pp., $27.95)
THIS IS A SEASON of political anxiety, and the source of that unease is not only the election and looming economic uncertainties.